Flash Fiction Intensive
Get inspired and learn how to write and publish flash fiction. Write 12 stories in 4 weeks. PLUS: start your novella-in-flash.
Do you want to learn to write flash fiction? Writing flash fiction is a great way to get inspired, get back into writing, and flex your narrative muscles. It's also a great way to break into publishing. In the four-week flash fiction intensive, you will write twelve flash fictions.
BONUS: A fifth module will be devoted to the novella-in-flash. In this section, you will look for the seed of a novella-in-flash in the flash fictions you have written and try your hand at beginning a novella-in-flash.
What you get in the Flash Fiction Intensive:
- A new video and written lesson every week for five weeks
- Daily reading suggestions and writing prompts (24 daily readings plus corresponding exercises)
- You will write three flash fictions per week for four weeks.
- Although the course is designed to be completed over four weeks, you will have access to all of the materials for 18 months, so you can work at the pace that best fits your schedule.
- In week 4, you will learn how and where to submit your flash fiction.
- In our bonus section, Week 5, you will learn about the novella-in-flash form, and you will try your hand at beginning a novella-in-flash with the material you have written in the class.
If you've ever wanted to write short stories, but don't think you have the time, or if you've heard about flash fiction but don't really know what it is, this class is for you!
Recommended Texts
These books are completely optional. All of the Daily Readings can be found online.
Short: An International Anthology of Five Centuries of Short Stories, Prose Poems, Brief Essays, and Other Short Prose Forms, edited by Alan Ziegler
Flash Fiction Forward: 80 Very Short Stories, edited by James Thomas and Robert Shapard
Unlocking the Novella-in-Flash, by Michael Loveday
Frequently Asked Questions
Your Instructor
Michelle Richmond is the New York Times bestselling author of six novels and two award-winning story collections. Her books have been published in 31 languages and optioned repeatedly for film and television. She has taught in the Masters of Fine Arts programs in creative writing at the University of San Francisco and California College of the Arts and has served as Distinguished Visiting Writer at St. Mary's College of Moraga, Bowling Green State University, and Notre Dame de Namur University. She has also designed and taught novel writing courses online for Stanford Continuing Studies. She is the founder and publisher of Fiction Attic Press.
